Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.